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" She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. "
Selections from the American Poets - Page 86
by William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 316 pages
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!— Fair, as a Star when'only one Is shining in the sky! She liv'd unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceas'd to be;...
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The last man, by the author of Frankenstein, Volume 1

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - End of the world - 1826 - 260 pages
...two fair objects in nature; but his lines always appeared to me rather a contrast than a similitude: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden -from the eye, Fair as a star when only one Is shining in the sky. Such a violet was sweet Perdita, trembling to entrust herself to the very air,...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 1

1827 - 492 pages
...untrodden ways, Beside the springs of Dove; A maid whom there was none to praise, And very few to love. A violet, by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye...when only one Is shining in the sky. Wordsworth. ' I wish, dear mother, you would eat a few of these fresh watercresses. Do try now. You used to lie so...
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Midnight musings, poems

Midnight musings - 1832 - 162 pages
...That on his harp, with mournful tone, bin last faint sigh was breathed ! STANZAS. A violet beneath a stone, Half hidden from the eye — Fair as a star,...when only one Is shining in the sky — WORDSWORTH. OH be thy heart as pure, young maid, As the early flow'r of morn — Thy feelings as the fragrant breath...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in...
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The Last Man, Volume 1

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - End of the world - 1833 - 234 pages
...fair objects in nature ; but his lines always appeared to me rather a contrast than a similitude : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye, Fair as a star when only one Is shining in the sky. 4 Such a violet was sweet Perdita, trembling to entrust herself to the very...
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Flora and Thalia; or, Gems of flowers and poetry, by a lady

Flora (goddess.) - 1835 - 314 pages
...beautifully strew, And first perehance in gloom appear. M. From " Flowert of all Hut." POETICAL PORTRAIT. A Violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye,...star, when only one Is shining in the sky. WORDSWORTH. FLOWERS of the fairest, And gems of the rarest, I find and I gather in country or town ; But one is...
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Lady's Cabinet Album

1835 - 416 pages
...still sits enthroned upon his precipice. [AUTHOR OF ' HOBONOX.'] >2 MODESTY. A VIOLET by a mossy atone, Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. [WOBDSWORTH.J THE GLOVE. IN former days, there was no cavalier in Florence better...
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Melanie and Other Poems

Nathaniel Parker Willis - American poetry - 1837 - 266 pages
...its silent wing, How with the clouds he'll float away, As wandering and as lost as they ! APRIL. " A violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye, Fair as a. star, when only one Is shining in the sky." WOHDSWORTH. 1 HAVE found violets. April hath come on, And the cool winds feel...
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Ward's miscellany (and family magazine)., Volume 1

1837 - 860 pages
...springs of Dove, A roaid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love ; A violet by a mo«sy stone, Half hidden from the eye ; Fair as a star when only one Is shining ia the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in...
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